The following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on March 1^st:

• Birth of Aragorn II (Elessar) (2931)
• Frodo begins the passage of the Dead Marshes at dawn. (3019)
• Entmoot continues. (3019)
• Aragorn meets Gandalf the White. (3019)
• They set out for Edoras. (3019)
• Faramir leaves Minas Tirith on an errand to Ithilien. (3019)
• The passing of King Elessar (1541)

March 1, 2931

1. Birth of Aragorn II (Elessar)

(not from the appendices)

“And it happened that when Arathorn and Gilraen had been married only one year…”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 420 RotK)

March 1, 3019 (S.R. 1419)

1. Frodo begins the passage of the Dead Marshes at dawn.

(from the appendices)

“At last Sam could bear it no longer. ‘What’s all this, Gollum?’ he said in a whisper. ‘These lights? They’re all round us now. Are we trapped? Who are they?’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 296 TT)

2. Entmoot continues.

(from the appendices)

“…they did not go far from [Quickbeam's] ‘house.’ Most of the time they sat silent under the shelter of the bank; for the wind was colder, and the clouds closer and greyer; there was little sunshine, and in the distance the voices of the Ents at the Moot still rose and fell….”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 111 TT)

3. Aragorn meets Gandalf the White.

(from the appendices)

“‘Well met, I say again!’ said the old man, coming towards them. When he was a few feet away, he stood, stooping over his staff, with his head thrust forward, peering at them from under his hood.”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 123 TT)

4. They set out for Edoras.

(from the appendices)

“‘[Shadowfax] is steering a straight course now for the hall of Théoden under the slopes of the White Mountains,’ said Gandalf….”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 139 TT)

5. Faramir leaves Minas Tirith on an errand to Ithilien.

(from the appendices)

“‘It is close on ten leagues hence to the east-shore of Anduin,’ said Mablung, ‘and we seldom come so far afield. But we have a new errand on this journey: we come to ambush the Men of Harad. Curse them!…’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 338 TT)

March 1, 1541

1. The passing of King Elessar

(not FROM the appendices—but IN the appendices)

“‘Lady Undómiel,’ said Aragorn, ‘the hour is indeed hard, yet it was made even in that day when we met under the white birches in the garden of Elrond where none now walk.’”

(Tolkien, 1965 Ballantine, p. 428 RotK)

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